(Unofficial Translation) Honorable chair, Your Majesty, and Excellencies, Today, we are making our utmost efforts to protect the health of our people and the economy against COVID-19. I find it very fortunate that the ASEAN-ROK Summit is held at a time when we are in need of closer solidarity and cooperation. I&r...

Nov 12, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) Fellow Koreans and farmers, Everyone has been working very hard this year. Farms might have suffered indescribable damage to a full range of crops – vegetables, flowers and fruit – due to school lunch programs being halted and other events impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak, as well as the...

Nov 11, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) I extend my congratulations, together with the Korean people, to U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden on his election. I hope that President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris will unite the United States and lead a successful administration. As a friend like no other and a reliabl...

Nov 09, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) Fellow Koreans, the 150,000 career firefighters across the country and volunteer firefighters, Today marks the first Fire Service Day since all career firefighters have been reclassified as civil servants under the central Government. It is especially meaningful to hold this ceremony her...

Nov 06, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) Congratulations on the opening of Jeju Forum 2020. Your Excellencies, former Heads of State, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Distinguished experts from various fields, thank you all for joining us virtually today. Dear Ambassadors and Distinguished guests participati...

Nov 06, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) The world should move toward “carbon neutrality” together as a joint response to the climate crisis. Countries across the globe are declaring carbon neutrality as the inevitable choice for a sustainable earth. At the forefront of this cause, the European Union announced last year...

Nov 03, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) Two professionals are joining today’s meeting – Incheon Medical Center Director Jo Seung-yeon and Professor Kim Yoon of Seoul National University College of Medicine. Thank you. The newly appointed Senior Secretary to the President for Jobs is also attending for the first time to...

Nov 02, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) Fellow Koreans, citizens of Ulsan, Ulsan is the heart of Korea’s automobile industry. The city is the world’s largest automobile manufacturing factory, producing 6,000 cars daily – 1.5 million cars annually – in cooperation with some 500 businesses employing over 5...

Oct 30, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) Fellow Koreans, the Honorable Speaker and distinguished members of the National Assembly, In this very grave situation in and outside the country caused by COVID-19, I stand before the National Assembly and the people with extraordinary determination and a heavy heart to explain the Gove...

Oct 28, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) With the worldwide daily caseload nearing 500,000 and a potential second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic escalating the crisis, Europe and many parts of the world are tightening their emergency measures, including the reimposition of lockdowns. By contrast, we have become a special and excepti...

Oct 26, 2020